A MOTHER and wife begged a North Wales community last night to bring murderers to justice.

A MOTHER and wife begged a North Wales community last night to bring murderers to justice.

And police made their bluntest appeal yet to residents of Mold housing estates telling them: "You know who the murderers are."

North Wales Police, backed by Flintshire County Council, took the unusual step of calling a public meeting to call for help in catching Paul Savage's killers.

The 30-year-old postman was beaten to death as he made his early morning deliveries in Clayton Road on February 4.

Last night his mother, June White, travelled from her home in Manchester to join her son's widow Charlotte, 26, to beg the public to give police information.

About 60 people turned up and sat in silence as the man leading the inquiry, Det Supt Chris Corcoran told them: "These people are being protected by this community and they are not nice people, they are very dangerous and very violent. If they are not caught they will live among you and they will rule by fear.

"People are giving police stories and trying to alibi these people. This is a very dangerous game to play."

As Mr Corcoran outlined in detail the brutality of the attack, he said there must have been lots of people in the area on the morning of the murder.

But he pledged the 40-strong team would continue to knock on doors on the Bryn Gwalia and Queens Park Estates.

"There is a group in this small community who will not come forward," he said.

Mrs White read out a statement on Charlotte's behalf which said: "It was Paul's birthday last Sunday, he would have been 31. I went to the cemetery with our daughter Reagan and she took a teddy and was holding a star because she thinks her daddy is now a star in the sky.

"We watered his plants together and sang happy birthday. It breaks my heart to hear her talk to her daddy like that. I cannot begin to explain the conditions I feel inside, like an aching which will not go away. I am lost most days.

"We all know who the murderers are, and it is only a matter of time before they are convicted. Paul cannot tell me what happened, can you?"

Mold resident Kelly Wolfe said her relatives challenged the police as to why officers had finger printed and taken DNA samples from their 80-year-old grandmother, and were angry when police would not answer publicly.

Outside Ms Wolfe said: "They went to my grandmother's house and took DNA and fingerprints without making an appointment, without asking if she would like anyone in attendance. At 80 she just said yes. But we found out later other people were advised not to. I think they approached it all wrong. A woman of 80 doesn't know anything. I cannot under-stand why they singled her out in the first place. If she had not been 80 she would not have done it, now her fingerprints and DNA will be on record."

Det Chf Insp Dave Loftus said they would be happy to explain the situation to the family after the meeting.

Another resident was upset the police were so certain the killers lived on the estate. When Mr Savage had been in Mold for just six months and had previously lived in Manchester he questioned what evidence they had.

DS Corcoran said: "We have taken 1,000 statements and without going into all those statements we are happy the answer lies in this community." He said certain sections of the community were shutting doors in their faces, and telling their children not to speak to the police.

"If you want the violence and the drugs then don't speak to us, bury your heads in the sand. What message are we giving to our children when we tell them not to speak to the police?" asked Mr Corcoran.

* The Royal Mail has offered a reward of &#xA3;25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killers. Ring 01352 707500 in confidence, or contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.